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Transforming a neighborhood into a brotherhood

My brothers and sisters, we are only beginning. We
still have a long long way to go and I would like to share with you the burden
on my heart about the problems that still confront us. If I would use a subject
for what I am talking about, I would call it; Transforming a neighborhood into a brotherhood. I want to try and
tell you the truth, i want to speak honestly and frankly about many problems
that we face in our nation and that we face in the world. I still believe that
freedom is the bonus you receive for telling the truth and as Jesus said, ye
shall know the truth and the truth shall make ye free. Transforming a
neighborhood into a brotherhood.

Now there can be no gainsaying of the fact that
Kenya has brought its people and the world to an all inspiring threshold of the
future. We have built gigantic building to kiss the skies, we have placed time
in chains and we have curved highways midair. This is what our nation has done.
What I want to say you my friends is that when we look to the other side,
something basic is missing. We suffer from a kind of poverty of the spirit
which stands in glaring contrast to our technological abundance. We’ve learnt
to swim the seas like fish and to fly the air like birds and yet we have not
learnt the simple art of walking like brothers and sisters. This is the great
dilemma facing Kenya. It comes to this point now; we must all learn to live
together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.

There are two things that we must deal with if we
are going to transform this neighborhood into a brotherhood. We have to deal
with the problem of tribalism and we have to deal with the problem of economic
injustice or poverty. More and more we have to tell the truth about this
problems and the truth means saying to our leaders that tribal injustice is the
poor man’s burden and the rich man’s shame. Admittedly we have made some
strides, we’ve made some progress but this should not cause any of us to become
apathetic, lax or complacent. We need to recognize that the plant of freedom
has grown just a bud and not yet a flower. The problems that we face are still
very serious.

Kenya has constantly made a positive step forward
on Human Rights but it has usually simultaneously made a step backwards. There
has never been a single, solid determined commitment by politicians on the
question of genuine equality for the “poor man”. In 1963, the poor man was
freed from the bondage of physical slavery through the emancipation
proclamation but he wasn’t “given” any land to make that freedom meaningful.
You know it was something like having a man unjustly imprisoned for 30 or 40
years and suddenly you discover that he is innocent, that he has been unjustly
jailed for 30 or 40 years and then you simply go up to the man and say, now you
are free. But you don’t give him any bus
fare to get to town. You don’t give him any money to buy clothes to put on his
back. You don’t give him any money get on his feet so that he can rise up once
more as a man. Emancipation for the poor was freedom to hunger. It was freedom
to the winds and rains of heaven. It was freedom without roof over their heads.
Freedom without bread to eat. Freedom without land to cultivate. It was freedom
and famine at the same time. This is what happens to the poor man in Kenya.

I always get a little worried when I hear of
responsible leaders because so often when some people call you a responsible leader
they are really telling you that you are a leader who will not tell the truth
on behalf of your people. So often they mean that you are a leader more
concerned about your budget than you are concerned about the freedom of your
people. So often they really mean that you are a leader willing to say to the
existing power structure what they want to hear rather than what they ought to
hear. If we understand this then we will understand that; the politician is not
protecting what he thinks is morally right, he is defending what he thinks is
morally profitable.

We are somebody. I will start with my own self by freeing my own psyche,
my own soul this is where you and i have got to start.

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